Administrator types and responsibilities
This section describes the types of NAS storage system administrators and defines their expected roles in managing the system and the associated storage subsystems.
- Global Administrators can manage everything in the system: file systems, file services, or file system related features and functions, storage devices and their components. Also, the Global Administrator creates and manages SMU user profiles (Server Administrators, Storage Administrators, Server+Storage Administrators, and other Global Administrators). Global Administrators also control what servers and storage devices each administrator can access.
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Storage Administrators manage storage devices, as specified in the administrator profile created by the Global Administrator.
Storage Administrators can manage only storage devices and their components (racks, physical disks, SDs, and storage pools). Storage Administrators cannot manage file systems, file services, or file system related features and functions, and they cannot manage users.
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Server Administrators manage servers and clusters, as specified in the administrator profile created by the Global Administrator. Server Administrators cannot manage storage devices.
Server Administrators can manage file systems and file services such as CIFS Shares, NFS Exports, and they can manage file system related features and functions such as snapshots, quotas, and migration policies and schedules.
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Server+Storage Administrators manage servers, clusters, and storage devices, as specified in the administrator profile created by the Global Administrator.
Server+Storage administrators can manage everything Server Administrators and Storage Administrators can manage: file systems, file services, or file system related features and functions, and they can also manage storage devices and their components.
All administrators can connect to the NAS storage system through NAS Manager, the browser-based management utility provided by the system management unit (SMU). Additionally, Global Administrators on an external or virtual SMU can connect to the SMU command line interface (CLI). SMU CLI access is not available on an embedded SMU or a NAS module SMU.
Read-only users: The above roles (when defined for local users or Active Directory groups) can be modified by making them read-only. A read-only user has permission to view most pages of the NAS Manager; however, they are not generally allowed to perform any actions on the NAS Manager that would trigger a system or configuration change.